Improvement in hand corn-planters



wyc. KEMP.

Hand Dorn-Planters.

Patented Feb.

[raf/@non UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM c. KEMP, or PALMY'EA, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND coRN-PLANTERS.

Specication forming part of Leiters Patent No. 147,231, dated February 3, 1874; application filed April 4, 1873.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. KEMP, of Palmyra, in the county of Marion and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Hand Corn-Planter; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view, with the lower part of the seed-bag removed. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is a detached view, showing the leaf G and grooves J.

. Similar letters of reference in the accompanying drawings denote the saine parts.

My invention relates to improvements in hand corn-planters, hereinafter more fully set forth, all of which I will now proceed to describe.

In the drawing, A is a sliding bar, containing the seed-pocket A1, and working in a groove running lengthwise of the inside of the plate B. The upper part of the pocket A1 is 0ccupied by a tongue, A2, which can be pushed down or drawn up in the pocket, thus increasing or diminishing the size of the lower part of the same, which is the part that receives the seed. A rod, A3, is fastened at one end to the tongue A2, the rod occupying a groove in the plate B, and having at its upper end a hook, which can be inserted in either one of a series of holes made for the purpose in the bar A. In the plate B is a hole, B1, with sloping sides, and to the outside of said plate a crosspiece, B1, is attached, the same having a wide groove in its inner side, which forms, with the hole B1, a chamber at the bottom of the seed-bag C, which chamber conducts the seed from the bag to the pocket A1. To the inside of the plate B a plate, C', is attached, which extends across the pocket A1, when the bar A is lowered to receive the seed. As the seed is carried upward when the bar A is raised, it falls across the upper edge of the plate C into the grooves in the vibrating leaf'. The bar A is worked by a lever, D, pivoted to the top of the plate E. In a groove in the cross-piece B2 a button, E', is pivoted, the same having `a prong, F, that extends from its inner side below the pivot, -through a slot in the plate- B, into a slot in the bar A.

When the bar-A is lowered, it strikes the prong F, and throws outward the lower end of the button E', thus throwing inward the upper end of the same, which then is in a position to direct the seed with more certainty into the pocket A1.

To the outside of the plate B, within the seed-bag, a metal piece, I, is attached, the same being bent inward at its lower end, so as to enter the hole B1 and bear against the bar A. l

IVhen the bar A is lowered, the pocket A1 comes below the end of the piece I, so as to Abe filled with seed. When the bar Ais raised,

the pocket A1 passes under the piece I, and the latter separates the seed inthe pocket from that in the chamber, preventing it from passing through the pocket in excess.

To the lower end of the plate E the vibrating leaf G is pivoted, the same being worked by means of a bar, G', connecting with the sliding bar A. When the latter is raised, the bar G draws the leaf G inward against the plate B. The apparatus is then in position for forcing the blades H into the earth side by side. At the same time the leaf G receives the seed from the pocket A1 at the point of junction of two diverging grooves, J, made in its inner fac-e, which separate the seed into two part-s, thus preventing its falling into the earth into a heap.

Vhen the bar A is lowered, the bar G forces open the leaf G, forming a cavity, into which the seed drops from the grooves J.

It will be seen that the grooves J J, for the transmission and separation or distribution of the seed, are connectedtogether at their upper ends by the passage J', which communicates directly with the lseed-pocket A1, when the latter is raised to its highest position, and the blades II H opened for planting the corn.

What I claim as new is- 1. The combination, in a hand corn-planter, of the sliding seed-pocket A1, plates or bars E B, having a Xed and movable blade at their lower ends, and the vibrating leaf G,

with d iverging grooves J J, opening directly into the passage J', the said passage being directly connected with the' seed-pocket A1, all constructed and arranged substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of the plates B E, leaf G, bar A, and connecting-piece G', all constructed and operating substantially as described.

3. The sliding bar A, provided with the seedpocket A1, in combination with the vibrating button Ef, having a prong, F, and grooved cross-piece B2, as and for the purpose set forth.

VILLIAM C. KEMP.

W'tnesses JOHN HART, LYMAN YANGEY. 

